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thingy¹

  • /ˈθɪŋiː/ UK
  • /ˈθɪŋi/ US

Rhymes with -ɪŋi

noun thingies · thingie · thingee

  1. informal A thing (used to refer to something vaguely or when one cannot recall or does not wish to mention its name). And as soon as that temperature returns to normal, let’s talk about the thingies that go through your headie at night.
  2. childish, euphemistic, slang A penis. He pulled out his thingy. It was huge.

    Similar: anaconda, baloney pony, bald-headed hermit, banana, bird, birdie, bobby, boonga, cack, choad, choda, chode

Similar: Sorted by number of Google hits, widget, hickey, gizmo, thingy, gimmick, thingie, jigger, gismo, gubbins, whatsit, thingamajig, doodad, whatchamacallit, doohickey, thingo, thingamabob, thingummy, whatsis, thingumajig, thingumabob, whatchacallit, Sorted alphabetically, affair, bazinga, bizzo, chingadera, dealie, dealy, dinglehopper

pronoun thingie · thingee

  1. informal A person whose name one cannot recall. He reminds me of thingy from that film.

thingy²

  • /ˈθɪŋiː/ UK
  • /ˈθɪŋi/ US

Rhymes with -ɪŋi

adjective thingier · thingiest

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a thing; tangible. The most unpleasant, and also the thingiest, the central thing in Foreign Parts, was a giant banyan tree, putting out more and more suckers which created tangled arches, a swollen hiding-place of a tree, a series of organic traps, […]

Thingy³

pronoun

  1. Alternative letter-case form of thingy (“a person whose name one cannot recall”). He reminds me of Thingy from that film.

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: gizmo, widget, something, trick, gimmick, thing, knack, whatnot, stunt, contraption, tip, stuff, sucker, crap, thingo, thingmy

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noun a thing

Españolchisme, chirimbolo, coso, chunche, perol, caroto
日本語あれ are, やつ yatsu
中文什麽玩意 /什么玩意 shénme wányì, 玩意 wányì, 什麼玩意的 /什么玩意的 shénme wányì de
Portuguêstreco, negócio, bagaça, coisa, troço, bagulho
Françaisbidule, machin, truc, chose
DeutschDings, Dingsbums, Dingsda, Etwas
Italianocoso, qualcosa, robo
Ελληνικάμαραφέτι maraféti, μαντζαφλάρι mantzaflári
Românăchestie
Русскийшту́ка štúka, шту́чка štúčka, штуко́вина štukóvina
Tiếng Việtgì đó

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@misc{thingy_2026,
  title = {thingy},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/thingy},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}